The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has registered party tickets
of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Russian Bloc for the
parliamentary elections.

At its meeting on Friday, the CEC registered 156 candidates on the
election list of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and 63 of the party's
candidates, who will run in single-mandate constituencies.

Socialist Party Chairman Petro Ustenko tops the party ticket. He is
followed by deputy head of the party Natalia Bondar, Lawyer Oleksandr
Hryhoryev, Head of the Union of Young Socialist Lialia Beliayeva,
Chairman of the Children of War Party, which joined the Socialist Party,
Valeriy Ivaschenko.

Socialist Party Leader Oleksandr Moroz was approved by the Central
Election Commission as the parliamentary candidate in the town of
Myronivka, Kyiv region, and former chairman of the State Property Fund
Valentyna Semeniuk-Samsonenko will run in the town of Berdychev
(Zhytomyr region).

In addition, the CEC registered the election list of 34 people of the
Russian Bloc party and nine candidates from the party, who will run in
single-seat constituencies, including well-known journalist Oles Buzyna,
who will run in constituency No. 223 (Kyiv).

At its meeting on Friday, the CEC also registered 106 candidates of
the political association Ridna Vitchyzna (Our Motherland), seventeen
candidates from the National Labor Union of Ukraine, and 78 candidates
from the Green Party of Ukraine.

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